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- Hello everyone, and welcome back
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Apa khabar semua, dan selamat kembali
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to English With Lucy.
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ke English bersama Lucy
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Now, since I've been having a little bit of criticism,
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constructive criticism, over my really,
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really long introductions, I've decided
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to get straight into the video.
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So today I'm going to be teaching
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you five ways that you can learn
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English on a daily basis.
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So you know, in my last video, I spoke
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about immersion, immersing yourself in the English language.
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I'm going to be showing you some ways
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you can do that, on a daily basis.
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I know there are a lot of videos on the internet,
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that talk about ways that you can fit English
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into your everyday life, but honestly
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when I watch them, I sometimes think, duh, yeah,
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obviously, of course I'm going to watch movies,
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listen to the radio, and read books.
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That's pretty obvious.
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So I wanted to talk to you about some
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other ways that you might not have thought of before.
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We'll see, you might have heard of some of them.
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But I often think that the best ideas
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are the simple ones, that just simply
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hadn't occurred to you yet.
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So, hopefully, I'm going to give you some of those today.
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The long introductions, with little updates
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about my life, and my silly stories,
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let me know, and I'll put 'em back in.
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But we're trying something new.
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Anyway, lets get started.
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The first tip is switch everything to English.
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Now you know when you look at your friends
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phone, and you're looking for something,
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and you say, oy, Tom, why is this in French?
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And they say, "Oh sorry, I'm just trying to learn French."
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Your friend's a very clever person.
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But we can take that a step further.
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So by switching all of your gadgets,
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I'm talking your phone, your TV,
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your microwave, your computer, your tablet,
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everything, into English, or the language
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that you are learning, you will be
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just a step closer to immersion.
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It will also remind you, on a daily basis,
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that you are learning English, because
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it's easy to forget that you're learning a language.
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I often forget that I'm learning Italian,
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until I see a pizza, or an aperol spritz,
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and I think, oh, I haven't studied anything today.
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Now it doesn't have to stop there.
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Something that I like to do is when
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I buy a new piece of furniture, or I buy
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a new hair product, or something, you know
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you have all of the instructions in every single language?
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I try to only read the instructions
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in the language that I'm learning.
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And try and work out what they mean,
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and see if I learn some new vocabulary on the way.
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So again, this isn't groundbreaking stuff,
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but it's a nice way of incorporating English
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into your everyday life.
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You know if I'm reading the nutritional
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information on a packet of cereal,
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I'll read it in Italian, before I read it in English.
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Just to see how they would word something.
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And you can really look into it.
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You can see how in your language it's
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written in a certain word order,
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but then in English it's a different word order.
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It's really quite interesting.
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So try that one out.
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Now the next one, learn a skill.
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Now, we always talk about the four English skills, don't we?
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Listening, reading, speaking, writing.
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That's what we're always examined on in our tests at school.
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But I'm not talking about practising
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one of these skills in English.
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I'm talking about another skill, like a hobby.
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Take a hobby, and learn it in English.
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I personally find it very, very boring
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to sit down with a book, and learn, and
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dedicate myself, I'm much more likely
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to learn a language if I'm doing something that I enjoy.
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And I spoke about this in my how I learned Spanish
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video, the thing I enjoyed was my ex-boyfriend...
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Not that...
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Yes...
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The thing I enjoyed was conversing with my ex-boyfriend.
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So I was doing that in the language
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I was learning, but I didn't even
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realise it at the time, but I was really,
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really improving my Spanish skills.
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And you can do this too with English.
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Something I'm really interested in is cooking.
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So I like to take Italian dishes, and
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read Italian recipes, and follow Italian instructions,
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and watch Italian recipe videos.
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If I make an Italian dish, once a week,
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then that's about an hour and a half, or an hour,
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of Italian immersion, every week.
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So that's a really nice way of incorporating
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that language into your everyday, or your weekly life.
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Maybe you could set out an English night
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where you try to make an English, or
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American, or Australian dish, our food
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really, really isn't that bad.
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Especially our puddings, and our cake.
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If I have a recipe to recommend to you,
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I would say try making brownies,
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which is an American recipe, or sticky toffee pudding,
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which is, I think, I'm pretty sure, it's an English recipe.
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We always have it at English dinner parties.
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But there are loads of skills you
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could learn, strictly in English.
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You could learn to knit, in English.
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You could play board games, in English.
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As long as it's something consistent that you do
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on a daily, or weekly basis, in English,
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you're so much more likely to take it seriously,
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because it's something that you genuinely enjoy.
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Tip number three is use an app, or programme,
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on a daily basis, to improve your English.
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So it's all very well attending a language
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course, or a language school, once a week,
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twice a week, but something else that's
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really, really helpful is doing a little bit every day.
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You can practise your pronunciation, through
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listen, record, repeat, exercises where you
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Everyone gets a discount, but the discount
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varies depending on where you are in the world,
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because it's calculated differently.
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Number four is one of my favourite words, multitasking.
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I always talk about multitasking, because
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multitasking has changed my life.
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I was never productive, I never got anything done,
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I would always prioritise my leisure time,
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over my work, and once I learnt to multitask,
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I realised that I could have leisure
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time and do the things I was
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obliged to do, at the same time.
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And you can do this too.
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I want you to learn to multitask effectively,
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and use that to improve your English.
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So.
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Think of the mundane tasks that you do everyday.
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Obviously commuting is a big thing.
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Going on public transport.
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For me, it's something that takes
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a massive, massive chunk out of my day is...
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It's my hair and make up.
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I have to be on camera.
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I like to look a certain way on camera.
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So I have to spend a little while doing
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my hair, and doing my makeup.
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And I find it really, really boring.
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I enjoy hair and makeup, but every single
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day it feels like such a waste of time.
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So, I started watching educational videos,
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whilst I was doing my hair and makeup,
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because I didn't have to concentrate 100%
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on what I was doing.
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So, for me, the thing I'm learning at the moment
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is about filming, and video production.
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I'm trying to make my quality better.
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I'm really, really trying.
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And so that's very time consuming,
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and I have to watch whole videos to learn
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one small skill, so I'll have them on,
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whilst I'm doing my hair and makeup,
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and I'm learning something, whilst doing
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something I have to do.
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But, another really, really cool thing
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is that I'll see a video that's maybe 30 minutes
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long, and I will challenge myself to complete
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my hair and makeup in those 30 minutes.
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So you're saving time.
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You're doing something you have to do.
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And you're learning something new,
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do it with English, there are so many
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fantastic English Youtubers, or English
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TV programmes, the world is your oyster.
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Go for it.
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It can really, really transform your productivity,
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as it did with mine.
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Now, number five is something that
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can improve your grammar, your vocabulary,
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your pronunciation, your speaking,
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your listening, your writing, your reading,
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it can genuinely improve everything.
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And this is identifying where you are lacking.
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And this is something you will have
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heard me mention before in videos,
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but I'm reiterating it, and repeating it,
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because I think it's so, so, so important.
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You might have heard me say before
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don't wait for somebody to educate you, educate yourself.
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Don't sit in a classroom and wait
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for a teacher to teach you the present simple.
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Teach it to yourself.
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And identifying where you are lacking
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really plays a big part in this.
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On a daily basis, if you're using a little
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bit of your English language, and you see
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that you're really...
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You can't use the conditional,
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write it down, and make a note that that day
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you are going to study what you don't understand.
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The next day, if you were listening
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to the news, and they were talking about a storm,
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and you really couldn't understand
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what they were saying, that day
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you have to study storm vocabulary.
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The next day, if you're having a conversation
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with somebody from Scotland, and you're really
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struggling to understand their pronunciation,
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that day you have to revise Scottish pronunciation,
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and then, instead of being in a classroom
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of 30 people, who are all studying the same thing,
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you could call it one size fits all,
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one teacher is giving knowledge to everyone,
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some may need it, some may not.
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You are taking in the knowledge that you need,
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nothing more, and nothing less, and day by day
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you will start improving so much more
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quickly than your peers.
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So I do think that number five is my favourite tip,
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actually, in English, identifying where
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you're lacking, and then educating yourself.
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There are all the resources in the world,
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on the internet, you can have private teachers,
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you can use grammar videos, like the
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ones on ABBA English.
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You've got Youtube here, there are loads
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of fabulous, native teachers here,
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and just ready to explain things to you.
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If you have a question, it's highly likely
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that 10's of thousands of people before you
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have also had the same question.
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The real question is finding the answer,
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and you should be able to find it
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because it will be there.
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(laughs)
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Right guys, that's it for today's lesson,
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I hope you enjoyed it, I hope you learnt something.
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A big thank you, again, to my sponsor, ABBA English.
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Don't forget to connect with me on all of
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my social media, I've got my Facebook,
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I've got my Instagram, and I've got my Twitter.
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And I will see you soon for another lesson.
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(smacks lips)
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(gentle pop music)
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